Houston Newton Barton
A memorial service will be held for Houston Newton Barton, 91, of Gold Beach at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 94191 Third St., Gold Beach. Houston was born Aug. 12, 1918, in Vandervoort, Ark., to Newton Houston and...
 2.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 66.0 Mushroom pickers find human remains near Gold Beach
The Curry County Sheriff s Office is asking for help in identifying a deceased person found north of Gold Beach. Deputies responded to a forested area near Edson Creek Road and Old Coast Highway on Wednesday afternoon, after two Gold Beach residents ...
1.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 104.0 Police narrow sights on school vandalism suspects
The Curry County Sheriff s Office has recovered 20 computers stolen last month from Pacific High School north of Port Orford. The soggy laptops were stashed on a suspect s property five miles from the school in a gorse patch, sheriff s Lt. John Ward ...
1.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 104.0 Small deals don't require big payoffs
Taxpayers find plenty of reasons to chastise local officials over how they spend the public s money. Sometimes they deserve the needling, but they also deserve pats on the back when they make wise fiscal decisions. So thank you, Coos County commissio...
1.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 211.0 Housing authorities ban indoor smoking
NORTH BEND Alan Pape doesn t like going into smokers apartments. But as the maintenance mechanic for the North Bend City/Coos-Curry Housing Authorities, it s part of the job. When you have to stand in them for two or three hours at times and breat...
4.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 66.0 Area agencies won't surrender to flu bug
NORTH BEND It may seem like a remote possibility now, but if Coos County were struck by an especially severe influenza outbreak, the city of North Bend would be prepared. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said each city department has developed an operat...
4.6K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 118.0 County agrees to house Curry juvenile offenders
Coos County has begun providing emergency juvenile detention to Curry County youth. Curry County does not have a juvenile detention facility and instead rents a specific number of beds a day from the Del Norte County in northern California. If there ...
1.9K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Library talks focuses on political crisis
Do the failures of modern governance and politics have more to do with a crisis of leadership or a crisis of citizenship? What can citizens do to improve the political discourse and the quality of public life? This is the focus of Of the People or f...
1.3K - Nov. 1, 2009; scored 66.0 Teens arrested in school vandalism
Curry County deputies have arrested three Port Orford teenagers on crimes related to theft and vandalism at Pacific High School the first week of the month. Deputies took a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl to the county s ju...
1.4K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 142.0 College sees bump in numbers
Officials at Southwestern Oregon Community College say the economy, efforts to woo new students and increased interest in its programs have led to a 7 percent increase in enrollment. Those 300 extra students fit right in the 5 percent to 10 percent s...
4.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 66.0 College sees bump in numbers
Officials at Southwestern Oregon Community College say the economy, efforts to woo new students and increased interest in its programs have led to a 7 percent increase in enrollment. Those 300 extra students fit right in the 5 percent to 10 percent s...
4.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 66.0 Second wave of H1N1 flu could hit
COOS BAY Oregon is preparing for four times as many influenza cases this year, because of the emergence of the new H1N1 strain. That could mean four times as many hospitalizations and four times as many deaths. All of the flu cases so far this year...
4.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 128.0 Dance will offer clean fun
Steve Scibelli remembers dancing when he was a teenager. We used to have dances almost after every football and basketball game, the North Bend police chief recalled. They probably kept him and his classmates out of trouble at least a little bit....
4.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 118.0 Agencies get 'green' grants
Public entities on the South Coast will get nearly $170,000 for energy efficiency and conservation projects. Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced Tuesday the recipients of $7.25 million in pass-through grants from the American Recovery and Reinves...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 157.0 Unemployment dips
Coos County saw a slight dip in unemployment in September, thanks to the beginning of a new school year, according to the latest employment figures from the state Employment Department. September s jobless rate fell to 12.8 percent, down from 13.5 pe...
1.8K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 473.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 85.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 85.0 Stitch for a niche
COOS BAY Halloween is Stacey Kelley s Christmas. The seamstress is steeped in costume orders. In her sewing nook, dozens of garbs soon will spring to life as fairies, executioners, kings and queens if only for a night. This is the crazy time of y...
3.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 66.0 Fire Season Ends Today
The Coos Forest Protective Association officially ended fire season today. Industrial fire precaution restrictions are no longer in effect and outdoor debris burning is allowed without a permit outside incorporated cities in Coos, Curry and Western D...
0.6K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 66.0 School seeks information about thefts
With a reward fund totaling nearly $4,400, the Port Orford/Langlois School District is offering more details about vandalism at Pacific High School, in an effort to catch the perpetrators. Police have few leads and are hoping people in the c...
2.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 117.0 | 
